The Science of Communication

4min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

The idea that everything is in the brain and if you want to do better at life, make brain better. You talk about computers being this useful but now problematic metaphor. The second wave of what if we talked about it more in terms of building a muscle and having growth and grit? So if you could unpack those two things, I'd love to hear from you.

In this episode we sit down with Annie Murphy Paul, the acclaimed science writer, whose new book, The Extended Mind is all about how the brain is part of systems, and it is those systems that constitute the mind. In other words, our minds are not, as she puts it, brainbound, but they extend to our computers, our notebooks, our friends and neighbors and colleagues and partners. The environments in which we move, natural and otherwise, deeply influence how we think, what we think, and what we CAN think, and in addition, everything the brain does becomes a reference for extended thinking, and these feedback loops extend what the mind can do.

Patreon: http://patreon.com/youarenotsosmart